My mother and sister were Wash Opera supers several times in the 80's. One night, Miss Manners' son was carrying a lit candelabrum in Cinderella, and he was so drunk he wobbled and fell down.

Gian Carlo Menotti directed a new production of Boheme and chose my 5'11" sister to be a nun (to make the children with her look smaller). In the crowd scene, he took the stage and tried to sell other supers some dirty postcards.